Word: collodion
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Sergei Rachmaninoff played at his first concert (with the New York Philharmonic) since he burned the forefinger of his right hand. To protect his fingers from cracking, he had put on collodion, a bandage. Then he lit a cigaret. When he ripped off the burning bandage, he ripped off a layer of the "new skin," a layer of real skin, postponed a tour to Dallas and Chicago...